AMERICAN STEEL COMPANY 
The American Steel Company was incorporated under 
the laws of Pennsylvania in 1904 and capitalized at $3,000- 
300. Its tin plate mill is located at Waynesburg and its 
wire and nail mill at Ellwood City. About 2,000 workers 
are employed in the manufacture of tin plate, black sheets, 
wire, wire nails and other wire products. The Company 
produces annually 400,000 boxes of base tin plate, while 
the nail and wire mill tonnage is about 40,000 tons a year. 
The mills of this concern are electrically equipped through- 
out. The foreign shipments of the Company have in- 
creased enormously in the last few years, going to all parts 
of the world. It issues catalogues in Spanish, French and 
Portuguese, as well as in the English language. Additional 
buildings are now in process of erection which will double 
the capacity of both the Waynesburg and Ellwood City 
plants. 
AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY 
In the Pittsburgh district of the American Steel & Wire 
Company, both Bessemer and open hearth ingots are pro- 
duced. The ingots are rolled into blooms, slabs and 
billets. Blooms are shipped to other companies for further 
rolling into axles and other shapes and slabs for rolling into 
plates. Billets form the raw material for the company’s 
own rod mills, in which they are rolled into wire rods, 
chiefly used for drawing into wire at its own plants, but a 
portion of this product is shipped to other companies for 
the same purpose, or for conversion into chain, rivets, 
bolts, etc. Much of this is coated with zinc (‘galvanized’) 
and the wire so coated is sold to other makers of barbed 
wire, woven fencing and poultry netting. Much of it is 
converted into these forms in the company’s own plants. 
Wire which is not galvanized is cut into nails or formed 
nto hoops. It is also converted into many other forms, 
such as bale ties, springs, wire rope, etc. Part of the steel 
made In Pittsburgh in the form of billets is rolled elsewhere